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This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined once again by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the

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and wrote in and said, where's, it's true one? And wrote in and said, where's bro? And I said,

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gone, why you left us? The Molly Fool has this quirky little benefit where once a month,

some employee is randomly chosen to go take off two weeks. It's called The Fool's errand,

and you don't have a choice, and you're given $1,000 to spend. I finally, after being here for almost 20 years, won this benefit.

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It was Christmas time.

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but I'm even more glad that you're back. Oh, that's so nice. Thank you. We had to make hay from

just anywhere. But we did. I mean, they weren't bad. They weren't bad, right? Rick? They were fine.

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